Netroots Nation: Pretty Bird Woman House - Don't Miss It!
Remember Pretty Bird Woman House(PBWH)? The Lakota Sioux women’s shelter the progressive netroots raised $87,000 to buy them a new house when their old one was destroyed by arson? Many of you expressed...
View ArticleRape in the Military:
No commentary need be added, the below speaks for itself, and more can be found if interested.Congress Charges Cover-Up
View ArticleUPDATED: Lets Honor the Biden Family with This
Update [2008-10-6 12:12:48 by betson08]: I had originally thought that we could do a snarky fundraiser in Sarah Palin's name for a furnace for the Pretty Bird Woman House. However, I then thought that...
View ArticleBaptized by Fire: Killer Blue {into the 7th yr.}
We've now entered the seventh year in Iraq and still way over one hundred thousand military troops occupy, a country that never should have been invaded, while we are led to believe that most of the...
View ArticleSexual Assault is NOT a Political Act
I've gotten used to the breathless diary titles claiming that a rethug has been "destroyed" or that some rethug's political career has been demolished because of something said or done that the rest of...
View ArticleVA Opposes Bi-Partisan Bill to Increase Assistance to Military Sexual Assault...
A Navy Times article quotes a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official, David McLenachen, VA's Director of Pension and Fiduciary Service, who represented the agency at the hearing HR 672, or The...
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Senate approves Claire McCaskill's sexual-assualt bill by a 97-0 vote
Kristina Peterson, of the Wall Street Journal reports that the Military Sexual-Assault Bill Easily Passes the Senate: Measure Backed by Sen. Claire McCaskill Passed by 97-0 Vote, Ending Battle Over How...
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This Week in the War on Women 03-21-2015
By Cristina Gutierrez-Boswell Happy Spring Break for some of us. Others? Not so good and not so “spring” and definitely, no breaks whatsoever. The news gets more concerning as the fight in this...
View ArticleRape: Worrying About The Man's Future.
From Media matter New Wash. Post Poll Confirms One In Five Women Is Sexually Assaulted On Campus, Despite Right-Wing Media's DenialLike most who said they had been assaulted, the woman did not report...
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Disney is removing statue of Bill Cosby from Florida theme park
With the very fresh revelations of Bill Cosby admitting to buying drugs with the intent of giving them to women hitting the internets, Disney has finally decided to take down a bust of Bill Cosby at...
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Then I'll say it -- Grow UP!
What was said:During the interview, which Rubin posted on YouTube on 4 April, Fry said: “There are many great plays which contain rapes, and the word rape now is even considered a rape.“They’re...
View ArticleRape victims less likely to get justice simply because of their zip code
When a survivor of sexual assault arrives at a hospital, it’s a sure bet that’s she’s been battered emotionally, mentally, and physically. You would like to think that there would be both adequate care...
View ArticleJudge to wipe man's rape convictions from record. It could mess up the boy's...
Prison-free rape is becoming the norm in the news. It’s actually been the norm for decades — just never has gotten so much press. So there is that.A sexual rape/sexual assault case hit social media...
View ArticleYeah Chachi, I'm a Nuclear Grownup.
Like pretty much everyone else, I’m tracking the current 2016… well, whatever we’ll end up calling this horrible fiasco in the end. I won’t bother covering the main points and arguments because the...
View ArticleThe Window of Disclosure: Your Reaction Can Change a Life
When I was a child, I never told anyone that my father was touching me in places he shouldn’t be. Only my sister knew. I knew he was touching her too, because we shared a room and he went from one...
View ArticleTrump's Never Ending Neverland
A lot of people thought it was strange when Michael Jackson built an amusement park on the grounds of his Neverland Ranch, replete with Ferris Wheels, roller coasters, and carousel rides, but it all...
View ArticleCalling it "Locker Room Talk" Changes Nothing, Donald. Assault is assault.
More thoughts on my earlier post: Outrage in Mississippi — Noose, Locker Room, 2016Another day, another racist attack. In Mississippi. At a school. In a LOCKER ROOM. Against a child. A...
View ArticleHypocrite and sex-abuser Dennis Hastert thinks guy he molested should give...
If you want to know how shameless Republican hypocrisy is, you need go no further than disgraced former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.Jailed former House Speaker Dennis Hastert says a...
View ArticleTrump administration taps accused sexual assaulter for high-level position in...
Apparently, sexual assaulters stick together in the Trump administration. In what is sure to be the grossest, most hideous appointment yet (aren’t they all, though?), the Trump administration has...
View ArticleA final ode to Cliff Huxtable: Burying the past in order to deal with the...
It’s devastating trying to say goodbye to a part of yourself that you’ve carried with you for almost as many years as you’ve been alive. There are various stages that you go through as you work to...
View ArticleWhat do we want to do with those guilty of Sexual Harassment and Assault?
I have a question: is there a place for me on Daily Kos or in the progressive movement? What should be done with me?I’m asking because I am guilty of the following actions:Throughout my teens/twenties...
View ArticleFairandWhite 11/10?
The satirical use of the title of Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 has permeated the landscape from Robert Calvert’s poem Centigrade 232, to activist/film producer Michael Moore’s original film...
View ArticleMy first sexual encounter story
OK, I just told my second husband about this about a week or two ago. I never told the first husband. I’ve never told anyone before. It happened 32 years ago and it was my first sexual encounter. I...
View ArticleI used to wonder: Dr. Blasey Ford, #MeToo, and the new Heroes
I wonderedwhat it would be like to be a daughter who was never nursed on her mother's blood and bruisesI wonderedwhat it would be like to have never worried for my daughters' safetyI wonderedwhat it...
View ArticleAnother Victim comes forward and accuses VA Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax of rape....
x#BREAKINGâ Our 1st few paragraphs of Lt Gov #JustinFairfax RAPE allegation...⢠As if the week couldnâÂÂt get any worse...⢠The capital is now in def com, as is the law firm that sent...
View ArticleCALL HIM WHAT HE IS: RAPIST. NAME WHAT HE DID: RAPE
What E. Jean Carroll describes is not sexual assault. It is RAPE. Our President is a rapist. Can’t wait till my daughter sees this on the news; she’s already filled with anxiety and mistrust of men....
View ArticleLiving With PTSD in the United States
Sexual assault and trauma is something that I’ve lived with and around my entire life. I was sexually abused as a child from age 5 to age 8; then I was re-traumatized in the military at age 22; then I...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A Pandemic of Sexual Assault in the Military?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.From the dawn of recorded history, humans have been making war and rape has been...
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